Arkansas drivers were met with a gruesome scene as they drove down Highway 71 in Greenwood. The bloody pavement continued 20 miles along Hwy 10 from Greenwood to Booneville.

A trucking company called MKJ based in Springfield, Mo., was hauling chicken blood from OK Foods in Heavener, Okla., to a plant called Pet Solutions in Danville, Ark. when the spill happened, said Keisling.

The tanked was full of 6,8000 gallons of chicken blood product.

Rick Johnson, the managing partner of MKJ, said the safety valve and handle that opens the tanker was 20-percent open. “We have no idea how this happened,” said Johnson. “It’s very strange, almost like it had be sabotaged.” Johnson said the truck driver had been in the truck one hour and made no stops when the tanker started leaking on Highway 71 near Bear Hollow Rd. just outside of Greenwood. “We can tell he never stopped because of our on board computer system,” said Johnson.

Johnson says the driver of the tanker was on Highway 10, 20-miles after the spill started, and a truck drove up behind the tanker and started flashing the lights on his vehicle.

The driver stopped and said a man got out of the vehicle and identified himself as a deer hunter and said, “You’re spilling your cargo and it stinks!” The driver said the man abruptly got back in his vehicle and left. The driver was only able to see that the man had Louisiana plates.

“I have no idea why a deer hunter was out at 11:30 at night, but the handle was broken is such a way that it may have been hit by a bullet while the truck was driving,” said Johnson. Johnson added, “It’s strange that this vehicle came from out of nowhere and stopped our truck. It’s very puzzling.”

Johnson says he knows the blood on the road was a great inconvenience for some drivers in the River Valley. “I want to pay to clean their cars. If someone has blood on their cars I want them to send me a picture and I will pay to make it right, it’s not their fault this happened. I will gladly compensate people that spent time and money cleaning their cars,” said Johnson.

One driver, Andrew Cormack, commented, "I don't know if this is going to come off. "It's caked on there, both sides, and it smells like...chicken. It smells awful, I can't stand it."

State police said they received calls from upset drivers and believe a poultry trailer leaked blood and chicken parts onto the road.

Brandon Dhart with the Arkansas Highway Police said, "It's most likely some type of chicken blood or gut product of that, a lot of times they'll take it and pump it into the fields, fertilize and stuff like that."

Police said they are looking for the person responsible who, if found, faces several citations and could be held liable for the damage.

"This is a big deal, spilling a load on the highway, especially being that much blood, like I said, it's approximately 20 miles, that's a major deal," said Dhart.

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